Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2529 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

boxebox

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 440 times in 274 works
Consistency: 99.7% (440 of 441)
Reach if approved: ~463 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: box
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 441 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (440 changes in 274 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 440)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… house of Symon the Leapor, there came vnto hym a woman, hauynge an Alabaster boxebox of precious oyntment and powred it on his head as he sat at the …
With rule
… house of Symon the Leapor, there came vnto hym a woman, hauynge an Alabaster boxebox of precious oyntment and powred it on his head as he sat at the …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtill we are but unprofitable ſervants: One little dead fly will ſpoile a whole boxebox of pretious oyntment, ſo one dram of merit will marre the beſt action, and …
With rule
… ſtill we are but unprofitable ſervants: One little dead fly will ſpoile a whole boxebox of pretious oyntment, ſo one dram of merit will marre the beſt action, and …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
A boxebox inſealed with charters, it ſhall goe to the heyre with the Charters, & not to …
With rule
A boxebox inſealed with charters, it ſhall goe to the heyre with the Charters, & not to …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
A boxebox of hollowed rings, which I value at a great rate.] Doth he make them …
With rule
A boxebox of hollowed rings, which I value at a great rate.] Doth he make them …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the beſt remedie in caſes of danger; but if the danger paſſe his Tarre-boxebox, and touch upon the life; he then gives them over, and lets nature worke …
With rule
… the beſt remedie in caſes of danger; but if the danger paſſe his Tarre-boxebox, and touch upon the life; he then gives them over, and lets nature worke …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… neyther crossynge of their foreheades, nor holye water, nor yet Gods bodye in the boxebox, coulde defende them from beynge wyth chyld. For thus lyeth it in the text …
With rule
… neyther crossynge of their foreheades, nor holye water, nor yet Gods bodye in the boxebox, coulde defende them from beynge wyth chyld. For thus lyeth it in the text …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. xx · Open in the reader
Printed
… for what was deſperate, they are glad; If they haue bonds or ſpecialties, they boxebox them vp, they know when they expire, what to challenge by vertue of them …
With rule
… for what was deſperate, they are glad; If they haue bonds or ſpecialties, they boxebox them vp, they know when they expire, what to challenge by vertue of them …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that standeth by, whiche is nothyng so delectable yf the oyntment remayne wythin the boxebox, and the floures stande or lye wythout touchyng or mocion.
With rule
… that standeth by, whiche is nothyng so delectable yf the oyntment remayne wythin the boxebox, and the floures stande or lye wythout touchyng or mocion.
John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

Printed
PANDORA'S BOXEBOX; OR, THE CAUSE OF ALL EVILS AND MISERY. A Sermon preached before the high …
With rule
PANDORA'S BOXEBOX; OR, THE CAUSE OF ALL EVILS AND MISERY. A Sermon preached before the high …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 80 · Open in the reader